As a member of the top 1% income earners Donald Trump declares the American people are stupid. Stating that he started with a small loan of a million dollars from his father. While emphasizing the word small he continues to tell the world that the $7.25 minimum wage is too high. Anyone who rationalizes a million dollars as small and can then rationalize $7.25 wage as to high is stupid.

The success or failure of the Republican Party can be determined by results of having applied trickle-down economics. A 50- state study shows the most poverty stricken states failing the American people are eight southern red Republican states with Republican controlled trickle-down economics. The BLS just reported that the 10 states with highest unemployment are Republican red states. History shows 12 years of Bush administrations created 3 million jobs compared to 12 years of Clinton/Obama administrations that created 30 million jobs. Trickle-down economics defines Republicans’ failed ideology and moral compass.

Eight of the bottom 10 states with the most extreme poverty and worse economic success are Republican red states who oppose raising minimum wage, which exemplifies typical Republican policies for the rich that fail the religious test of caring for the least of us.

The Chamber of Commerce/Republican Party has declared war on policymakers with expertise on climate change attempting to lower carbon emissions to save the planet thereby failing the religious test. Even Pope Francis urges action on climate change, saying “to listen to the cry of the earth, the cry of the poor” is the responsibility of its citizenry to care for the earth warning the world is “at the limits of suicide.”

It’s quite obvious that Republican trickle-down economic policies consider workers, the poor, the needy and the earth collateral costs of representing the rich.